Reflection of His Heart

This started out as a random excuse to study transparency effects, using one of my own original story ideas...and morphed into a two-and-a-half hour pencil fest. I'm actually surprised it took so little time; most of my works take at least a good 3 hours to get anywhere decent. Done with that same old trusty B lead mechanical pencil (I find that lighter lead works best). Now, *please* just don't ask a stupid question like 'Which one is the guy?' (They both are. It's fantasy art, so guys can put up their hair in weird ways too. And I'm not going to take time to argue about perceptions versus anatomy and all that stuff.) O_O I don't want to give away too much information about the story, but the picture doesn't otherwise have obvious sci-fi elements. It is supposed to take place on a planet that has only one natural magnetic pole. The society on this planet has a caste system based on genetic stratification. The odd and faded landscape in the background, that the main fellow is walking in, is supposed to be the barren land of desolation at the point farthest from the magnetic pole. //21 June 2001